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Lies, Damned Lies and Doublespeak
« on: December 08, 2010, 02:02:14 am »
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   http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-lies-damned-lies-and-the-doublespeak-i-would-expunge-1780241.html


  What word or phrases would you "expunge" from our lexicon for being redundant, disingenuous or outright false, or misleadingly euphemistic or dysphemistic?
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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2010, 11:29:36 am »
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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2010, 11:30:46 am »
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Re: Lies, Damned Lies and Doublespeak
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2010, 11:34:38 am »
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I'd get rid of 'got'.
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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2010, 11:42:20 am »
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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 12:18:43 pm »
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seriously? absolutely. it's completely hyperbolic.
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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2010, 01:33:14 pm »
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Re: Lies, Damned Lies and Doublespeak
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2010, 01:59:04 pm »
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« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2010, 07:17:31 pm »
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Religion, God, faith.
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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2010, 08:41:48 pm »
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awesome? awesome. Who's awesome? you're awesome. Awesome awesome awesome cool. Totally sick, totally rad, totally cool, totally awesome. AWESOME. Totally.

And like, awesome like?
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Re: Lies, Damned Lies and Doublespeak
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2010, 08:57:21 pm »
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Quote from: Cthulhu on December 08, 2010, 07:17:31 pm
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oh dear.

I think people inappropriately use the word 'complicated' or 'complex' too often. Basically, if you write something that is fairly easy to understand is complicated, then people do begin to think it's complicated, even though it isn't. But still, they're important words!

I exhaustively concur with Orwell in that I find inordinately verbose documents to be unworthy of credence. (see what I did there?)

I also hatehatehate the misuse of the word epic. Is it Lord of the Rings? Was it written by Milton? If no, it's probably not actually epic.
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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2010, 01:06:24 am »
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Quote from: Eriny on December 08, 2010, 08:57:21 pm
I exhaustively concur with Orwell in that I find inordinately verbose documents to be unworthy of credence. (see what I did there?)
I too have an extreme dispredilection for sesquipedalian euphists whose pedagoguery amounts only to grandiloquent obfuscation.

Quote from: Eriny on December 08, 2010, 08:57:21 pm
I also hatehatehate the misuse of the word epic. Is it Lord of the Rings? Was it written by Milton? If no, it's probably not actually epic.
I agree, though its legitimate use should be extended to Gone With the Wind.
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Re: Lies, Damned Lies and Doublespeak
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2010, 01:16:55 am »
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Quote from: MuggedByReality on December 09, 2010, 01:06:24 am
Quote from: Eriny on December 08, 2010, 08:57:21 pm
I exhaustively concur with Orwell in that I find inordinately verbose documents to be unworthy of credence. (see what I did there?)
I too have an extreme dispredilection for sesquipedalian euphists whose pedagoguery amounts only to grandiloquent obfuscation.

what? oO lol english please...
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« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2010, 01:19:56 am »
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a word that is commonly misused is " design ", although I admit it's not that bad aesthetically



actually... i really hate the word " lineage " . It looks so damn ugly and the non-diphthong is horribly unintuitive
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